John Fogerty - Long Road Home: Ult Fogerty Creedence Collection
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Free Music Review: Excelent for the collectors
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an excelent cd and dvd for your collectors.
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Free Music Review: Fogerty
Hit: 5 Stars
Great value. If you are into the 60s' and 70s' you will love this one.Free Music Review: Fabulous single disc overview of the remarkable career of John Fogerty.
Hit: 4 Stars
Back in 2005 John Fogerty settled his decades long dispute with Fantasy records and returned to the label as a solo artist. This multi-talented singer/songwriter/musician certainly surprised lots of people back in 1972 when he broke away from Creedence Clearwater Revival at the peak of their popularity to pursue a solo career. While Fogerty did experience a fair amount of success as a solo act he was hard pressed to duplicate the phenomenal run he experienced with CCR during the incredible three year period from 1968 to 1971. During this period CCR had an amazing total of 9 Top Ten hits! Now all these years later comes a pretty comprehensive single disc collection featuring many of those great CCR tunes and a number of Fogerty's solo hits as well. "The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty/Creedence Collection" offers up 25 of the biggest and best tunes penned by this legendary performer.
If the hits are what you are looking for you then "The Long Road Home" certainly does not disappoint. Included in this collection are 14 of Creedence Clearwater Revival's biggest and best tunes including "Bad Moon Rising", "Down On The Corner" as well as the band's first big hit "Proud Mary" from early 1969. I was certainly quite pleased to find some of my favorite CCR hits as well including "Have You Ever Seen The Rain", "Lookin' Out My Back Door" and "Who'll Stop The Rain". These are all the original Fantasy recordings you would remember from the radio. Now one of Fogerty's first solo efforts was a song called "Rockin' All Over The World" which was a fairly substantial hit in the Fall of 1975. You will find a rollicking "live" version of this tune included here. During the mid-80's John Fogerty returned to the Top Ten with "The Old Man Down The Road" and had another major hit with the song "Centerfield". That song is still being played in both major and minor league ballparks all over America more than two decades after its release. Both of these tunes are included here as well. I was also happy to find that "Almost Saturday Night", a terrific tune from one of Fogerty's 1990's albums, was included here as well.
As a collector, the thing that appealed to me most about "The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty/Creedence Collection" was that I could find John Fogerty's best work with Creedence and as a solo act all in one place. In addition, I found the half dozen or so newly-recorded "live" tracks to be quite enjoyable as well. All in all, this one is a fine addition to my collection. Highly recommended!
Free Music Review: Great Collection, but not enough Solo Songs
Hit: 4 Stars
This cd is nothing more than a Greatest Hits Collection of CCR, for John's solo career is not represented enough. There are 25 songs, but only 7 John Fogerty songs, and 2 of those are live tracks. Now I know John's best stuff was with CCR, but a true collection would contain more solo stuff, for he still wrote many gems.
As for the CCR stuff, mostly all the great songs are there. Some are missing though Put a Spell on You, Susie Q, Heard it thru the Grapevine and Midnight Special. I have some other favourites not included here, but we all do.
The live tracks are mixed. Bootleg is good, but Hey Tonight is weak and I would have preferred the much stronger studio version.
As for the solo songs, Blue Ridge Rangers, Eye of the Zombie & John Fogerty are not represented. Sure we have live versions of Almost Saturday Night & Rockin' All Over the World, but I prefer the studio versions, especially Almost Saturday Night which is way better than the live track where the backing vocals drown John's voice out. Though Zombie was panned, it still had some gems like Sail Away. And why is Rambunctious Boy included? Is this the 2nd best song on Blue Moon Swamp? It is weak lyrically and the song is not better than 110 in the Shade, Walking in a Hurricane or Southern Streamline.
Almost do we need 2 versions of Fortunate Son? Keep the CCR version and pick another solo song.
Despite its weaknesses, this is still a good collection and the sound is great. Still worth buying, but it could have been better.
Free Music Review: one of the most important american bands in rock history
Hit: 4 Stars
I heard CCR by way of postpunk bands like the Minutemen and even REM. In the early 70s they ruled the charts, while making music that was timeless. Their artistic merit is evidenced by their influence on 80s punk and underground rock, which later became homogenized and packaged as 'alternative' for the masses. CCR always represented artistic integrity, American rock, and heart felt emotion, thus the tie in to underground rock.
CCR harkened back to a south and southern blues, that if it ever existed as such, they were never actually a part of as a group of west coast musicians. Nonetheless, they wrote wonderful three chord rants that you could play by ear, and sing too. A battle over song ownership/royalties between Fogerty and their label may have compromised Fogerty's solo contributions, and constrained back catalogue releases.
As many point out, this is hardly an 'ultimate collection' of either CCR or Fogerty's few gems. It is intentional that he includes 'Centerfield' but not 'Rock and Roll Girls', a doppleganger and his two best solo cuts, apparently so you have to go get that album. 20 greatest hits volumes 1 and 2 accomplishes the task of 'the ultimate collection', leaving a few solo cuts and newer live material to commend this latest collection.